QUICK POST – UNBELIEVABLE SUCCESS AT THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE GAMEHOLE: TAKE BACK TEGEL MANOR!

Posted on by caddy1071 in ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Prize

Hello all! Just a quick note – we apologize for being a bit silent – we’re honestly pretty wiped out! We had an unbelievable showing with people playing constantly throughout the day to give a reckoning to the Rumps of Tegel Manor and raise an incredible amount of money for the American Cancer Society! We don’t have all the sources pulled together yet for totals, but we can let you know it is amazingly well over $4,000 – we are blown away from this incredible showing of support from players and vendors! THANK YOU, for helping us bring Good to those in need!

We will be going to the Atrium very soon to give out the physical prizes – we apologize for the delay.

Thank you, all!

Sincerely,

Cory Welch and Staff
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure

IN MEMORIAM: STEVE STRECKER

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, Crawl for the Cure, Gamehole Con, Memorial, Steve Strecker, Thank You

Michael Spredemann, half of the illustrious 2 Old Guy Games and faithful supporter of The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure, would like to say a few words about his good friend Steve Strecker, who tragically passed away recently. Thank you, Steve, for being the type of person who would give such a fine item up for a raffle for the Good of those affected by cancer! Without further delay, Michael’s words – Thank you!:

Steve Strecker: Dungeon Master, Overcautious Thief, Cleric of Mohag, and Wielder of the Hammer of Minimal Damage

Steve worked for TSR as an accountant back in the day and he shared many stories of those times with his fellow players. A shrink-wrap copy of the Ravenloft adventure Neither Man Nor Beast was donated from his personal collection in his memory for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure at Gamehole 2023.

He is remembered by his players in college as having a great intelligence and humor about the game. With a sly smile, he presented new challenges and obstacles but often showed mercy as the table’s very benevolent deity not wanting to take them and their character completely out of the game.

After a many-year break, he rolled his dice again with D&D 5e becoming Arjen Callas the Half-Elven Rogue and Mohag the Dwarf Cleric in over several years of adventures. Sadly his group was unable to finish Curse of Strahd with him when COVID cut their game short. He would have relished cutting off Strahd’s head like he did with every monster all because of that one zombie that got back up.

Arjen Callas

AN AMAZING SHOW OF SUPPORT FROM OUR RPG COMMUNITY!

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WITNESS. This is your incredible community!  This is not even all the physical products from the amazing RPG community who are giving with love to reward you for your donations to the American Cancer Society, and this does not cover the massive amount of PDFs! (See the seemingly ever-expanding lists here!) There is a dizzying array of awesome from these unbelievable companies for your donations in The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure Gamehole 2023: Take Back Tegel Manor on Saturday, October 21st, 2023! Please consider joining us and donating for your memorial token for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure and getting in on these amazing hourly raffles, and the two major open raffles – the magnificent Doug Kovacs original “Countess Rank Rumpula” event artwork, as well as the original shrink-wrapped 1995 Ravenloft Module Neither Man Nor Beast, donated by 2 Old Guy Games in the memory of their good friend Steve Strecker. Your $10 donation for the memorial token can always be used to play, or just participate in the raffles with a minimum $3 donation per hour. See the details here. 

Finally, keep your eyes open for envelopes containing free avatars set around the Con tomorrow!  These will give your 0-levels access to some tragically lost heroes, summoned back to this twilight world for a reckoning at Tegel Manor!  These envelopes will contain your memorial token for the event, the donation covered by our team – it will be in the totals!  Use this to have immediate access to higher powers vs. the Rump menace!

Join us on Saturday for an incredible time of adventure and brilliant, shining Good for the American Cancer Society!  We hope to see you there!

Please visit the Crawl for the Cure Gamehole Con site (https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=841) for more details and follow us on Twitter/X @crawlforthecure for more updates!

JOIN US AT GAMEHOLE CON X FOR A MEGA-DUNGEON MEGA-FUNNEL, TAKE BACK TEGEL MANOR!

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Gamehole Con X cometh and The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure run of Take Back Tegel Manor!, the Dungeon Crawl Classics 0-Level Mega-Funnel run in Frog God Games’ 2019 5th Edition release of Tegel Manor is close! We have very exciting sponsor news for our donors – you’ll drool at the goodies from our fine sponsors!

On Saturday, October 21, 2023, Frog God Games is providing Jerry’s Crawl a 16 x 16-foot battle map-scale map of Tegel Manor for a Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics Mega-Funnel of heroic proportions! The Rumps’ evil is seeping beyond the manor walls to Tegel Village; your villager plebians will rise to purge the malevolence of the Rumps before they claim you as their own undead servants! Through clever plans and magic collected throughout the Manor, your peasants take on the Rump threat!

Your $10 ticket purchase for the event gives you manor access and a memorial token (with incredible Doug Kovacs original artwork!) to present to play throughout the day! Multiple villager parties will work together and be sent on missions throughout Tegel Manor to crumble the foundations of the Rump legacy: collect magic items, garner supernatural support and patronage, gain ethereal blessings and defeat Rump kin upon your quest, donating to flip the odds in your favor! ALL funds collected from tickets and donations will benefit the American Cancer Society. Buy a ticket through the Gamehole Con site or contribute your $10 at the table and quest to help those afflicted! Our goal is to beat the $1,800 total collected last year to help cancer victims and those affected by their suffering through the ACS; we ask you to heed the call!

And, of course, you can expect our incredible sponsors to provide hourly raffle prizes and awesome end-of-event prizes for our players for their in-game donations! The renowned names you expect, as well as new sponsors, have added to the ranks: Goodman Games, Frog God Games, Troll Lord Games, Dandyline Games, Planet X Games, Get Haunted Industries, Wyrmwood Gaming and so many more are giving their high-quality products as raffle rewards and prizes for your generosity. Bad Mike of Frog God Games has pledged original Judges Guild products to players (while supplies last!) to give you a taste of the original creators! Traditional hourly raffles for donors will occur throughout the entire event, and special prizes will be given at the closing, including a Dungeon Crawl Classics Rulebook signed by a crazy number of Goodman Games authors, Twitch and table notables! Additionally, Doug Kovacs has pledged the original artwork created for the event for a raffle to benefit ACS! Players will all get one free raffle chance and we’ll sell tickets so everybody has a chance to take home this beautiful Doug Kovacs artwork – it is stunning!

Please visit the Crawl for the Cure Gamehole Con site for more details and follow us on Twitter/X @crawlforthecure for more updates!

We hope to see you there so we can once again smite this affliction and aid others in education and care if they are affected by cancer’s callous grip! Thank you for your support!